Lembeh Strait (Indonesia: Selat Lembeh) is a narrow stretch of water between Sulawesi and Lembeh Island (Pulau Lembeh), Indonesia. Lembeh Strait is world-known for its extremely high density of rare and unusual marine life, in particular eel.
An eel is a ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes which consists of about 800 species, most of the eels are predators.
Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from 5 centimeters in the one-jawed eel (Monognathus ahlstromi) to 4 meters in the slender giant moray.
Eel possess no pelvic fins, and many species also lack pectoral fins. The dorsal and anal fins are fused with the caudal fin, forming a single ribbon running along much of the length of the animal.
This little eel named ‘Black Ribbon Eel’, likes other eels , it also lives in the shallow waters of the ocean and burrows into sand, mud, or amongst rocks.
Eels swim by generating body waves which travel the length of their bodies, they can swim backwards by reversing the direction of the wave.
